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A judicial analysis of Article 15(c) of the Qualification Directive and international protection issues

By John Kelly, EIN, 02 April 2015

Newly released last month from the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) was a judicial analysis of Article 15(c) of Council Directive 2011/95/EU (the recast Qualification Directive). The full report — Article 15(c) Qualification Directive (2011/95/EU) - A judicial analysis — runs to 124…

The protection of seriously ill migrants and the "unfortunate principle" of N. v. the United Kingdom

By EIN, 19 March 2015

In a notable dissenting opinion in today's European Court of Human Rights judgment in the case of S.J. v. Belgium (Application no. 70055/10), Judge Pinto de Albuquerque has spoken out strongly on the protection of the human rights of seriously ill migrants in Europe and the "unfortunate…

Court of Appeal gives further guidance on Article 8 in immigration cases

By Millie Polimac, UK Human Rights Blog, 13 March 2015

Singh and Khalid v SSHD [2015] EWCA Civ 74 These two appeals the assessment of article 8 ECHR claims in immigration cases. It is an important addition to the current cases on which rules apply to applications for leave to enter or remain made before the new Immigration Rules came into…

Case Comment: R (JB (Jamaica)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] UKSC 8

By Varun Kesar, UK Supreme Court Blog, 12 March 2015

Factual Background The respondent was a Jamaican national who claimed asylum in the UK on the basis that he would be persecuted in Jamaica because he was a homosexual. However, the appellant considered that "in general" there was "no serious risk of persecution" in Jamaica and the…

Yarl’s Wood: legal black hole

By Sarah Campbell, Bail for Immigration Detainees via openDemocracy, 10 March 2015

Last Monday 2nd March, Channel 4 news screened disturbing footage from an undercover investigation into Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre in Bedfordshire, England. Staff were filmed referring to the asylum-seeking and migrant women held there as "animals", "beasties" and "b**ches…

2014 Asylum Trends and Facts

By the Refugee Council, 26 February 2015

Today the Government has published its migration statistics for 2014, which include the annual asylum figures. As we are all aware, the truth about asylum is often in short supply, with the same old myths and scare stories peddled again and again. At the Refugee Council, we believe it's…

Defining statelessness: a Chinese case study

By Stephanie Gordon, 05 February 2015

On 6 April 2013, the UK Border Agency's statelessness determination procedure was incorporated into new immigration rules. Statelessness has been an issue on the international legal agenda since World War Two, after which the UN promulgated the 1954 Statelessness Convention. The UK…

Foreign nationals who pose a threat to national security may not be deported to Algeria because of human rights – Court of Appeal

By Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog, 02 February 2015

BB, PP, U and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWCA Civ 9 (23 January 2015) This was an appeal by Algerian nationals who had been found by the Special Immigration and Appeals Commission (SIAC) to constitute a threat to UK national security, against deportation…

Hard Evidence: how has press coverage of immigration changed?

By Alex Balch, University of Liverpool, 26 January 2015

The British press has been accused of many things in recent years, most of them bad, but how can we measure performance in coverage of a particular subject such as immigration, and how is this changing over time? Surveys have identified significant gaps between perception and reality…

Case Comment: McCarthy (C-202/13) (Grand Chamber)

By Catherine Taroni, EUtopia Law, 19 January 2015

Context This case was referred from the High Court R (on the application of McCarthy and ors.) v the Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 3368 (Admin), and considered the applicability of Directive 2004/38 to situations not traditionally falling within the concept of a…

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